Tennessee Supreme Court, 1818

Tilman Dixon's Lessee v. Steele and Williams

Tilman Dixon's Lessee v. Steele and Williams
Tennessee Supreme Court · Decided March 6, 1818 · Haywood, J. —
6 Tenn. 28

Tilman Dixon's Lessee v. Steele and Williams

Opinion of the Court

That is the common practice. The objection ought not to prevail.

Another objection is, that the caption states it to have been taken in a suit between Dixon and these defendants. But not said to be an action of ejectment, nor between the lessee of Dixon and the defendants; and therefore there was nothing to show that the evidence was taken in his ejectment suit. And it might be in another suit. The action is rightly named in the dedimus, as between Dixon's lessee and the defendants. It is stated that pursuant to a dedimus, they have taken the deposition, not pursuant to the annexed dedimus.

Concurring Opinion

To presume a dedimus, not annexed, to have been that very one by force of which the deposition is taken, is to presume strongly at least. But it is stated to have been on a suit depending in Montgomery Circuit Court, and it is not shown that at any time any other suit answering this description was then depending in that court between Dixon and the defendants, it may, together with the actual annexation of the dedimus to the deposition appearing with the latter, enable the Court to presume that the suit in the deposition and in the commission is the same.

Therefore the deposition was properly received and read in the Circuit Court.

Affirm the judgment.

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